lieutenant landwehr assigned vicki wegerle s cold-case murder to myself and my partner, dana gouge. he didn t say at all, nor would he have ever, this is a btk case. i know it is. that s how i want you to work it. when bill wegerle came home that day for lunch, he walked through the house looking for his wife, vicki. when he found her body, she had been bound. he used a knife to cut some of the bindings off of her as he called the police. they transported her to a hospital, and life-saving efforts didn t work, and she d been strangled to death. when we reviewed the initial investigation of vicki s murder, we realized that her kansas driver s license had been missing. lieutenant landwehr had told us that his belief on the case was that it probably was not the husband,
roehrman: so, a little while after the eagle had its story about the 30th anniversary of the otero deaths, a letter came into the newsroom, and the return address was bill thomas killman, the initial as in btk. inside were three pretty blurry photos of somebody lying on a floor and a driver s license. otis: my partner, dana gouge, and i are sitting in the homicide unit, working on cases. a captain came up to the unit and was holding an envelope in his hand, and he said that a reporter from the eagle newspaper said, this is a weird letter we got at the paper. it appears to have a photocopy of three polaroid pictures of some female laying on the ground inside of a house. i will never forget when dana gouge opened that letter. he looked at what he had in front of him, he slid it across the desk to me, and there were three polaroid photograph